Have you ever been in an abusive environment only to find yourself unable to tear yourself away?

That you can’t live without the abusive person and keep going back for more?

That you find yourself feeling ‘disturbed’ and ‘distracted’ when placed in a peaceful atmosphere without your abuser?

Living with rejection and what do you do when it’s a constant in your life.

Let’s face it. We all have been rejected at some time or the other in our live and some of us more than others.

So it was that come this other day, yet in my dear friend Adaure's company, I began to prod my witty friend for more tete a tete.

"So tell me more about abusing and abounding, please, Adaure".

"Oh, I've learnt to abase and to abound. Yet not I", she says.

"I care nothing for most things the world gloats over.

For me, I watch in quiet observing."

As a young girl, dudes would come by in different automobiles, daddy/uncle/friend -borrowed, attempting to woo her.

And somehow, she never quite saw them automobiles, never quite took a notice.

This is a Rose. Beautiful yet thorny.

Imagine you're averse to thorns and you pick up a rose.

Sometimes, you touch the heart of certain people and some touch yours. You just have a canny understanding of who they truly are; their essence, even when sometimes they deter from it.

I am only but a little flower

The littlest in the bunch

The world so daring, so vast

Its majesty so loud

What shall I be?

Ever heard the saying that "90% of the things you fear, never actually happen"??

Joy is a beautiful thing indeed.To behold, to have, to give.Transcending the beauty of skin and face.

I speak forth, by faith, a 2021 of answered prayers concerning all that the Lord has promised you.

When the Lord answered Hannah’s prayer, this was a good day, a day to celebrate.

Like every season of life, singleness is a season to be enjoyed and celebrated not endured. There are many reasons why we must first be single before we marry. We must allow ourselves to slow down and listen to the beautiful wisdoms of singleness or risk missing the joys of being single.

If you're that woman in a broken marriage, and you're seeking reconciliation, God's way. It's not a case of violence and you're convinced this is the route you want to take.

Friend,

The enabling empowering grace of God is strong on your behalf. I have known this by personal experience. God Himself will help you.

Faith is a battleground.
Sometimes with no cease fires and no days off.
Once God has made a promise to us, we must believe and continue in the path of believing. Anything less than that and we are subject to suffering defeat.

My pregnant unmarried mother was left to raise me alone with the help of her parents on a country farm. The parish priest refused to baptise me because I was illegitimate. When I was 5, I gained a dad who I saw as a superhero, but who’s abuse left me disappointed and further rejected.

And her rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the Lord had closed her womb. So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, that she provoked her; therefore Hannah wept and did not eat (1 Samuel 6-7).

I can still remember how my father walked into the house that evening and announced that he had been fired. “I have just been fired,” he said to my mother miserably and languidly sank into the chair. “I have just received my termination letter. My own is finished. I am finished. We are finished.”

I can still remember how my father walked into the house that evening and announced that he had been fired. “I have just been fired,” he said to my mother miserably and languidly sank into the chair. “I have just received my termination letter. My own is finished. I am finished. We are finished.”

This evening, a dear friend and I were talking and somehow, we get to where she begins to share with me how she has very low self esteem and how everyone around her tries to trample on her and to reinforce in anyway they can, her ill feelings about herself.

This evening, a dear friend and I were talking and somehow, we get to where she begins to share with me how she has very low self esteem and how everyone around her tries to trample on her and to reinforce in anyway they can, her ill feelings about herself.